Nursing and midwifery in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh, 1882–1922

'Modest and civil people'

Religion and society in medieval Galway

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The town of Galway occupied a unique situation in medieval Ireland. Conspicuously English in its religious and political allegiances, it existed in an overwhelmingly Gaelic hinterland, far from...
Author/Editor: Rachel Moss and Cólman Ó Clabaigh OSB

The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

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The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later...
Author/Editor: Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley

Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

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This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it...
Author/Editor: Suzanne M. Pegley

The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921

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On the evening of 20 June 1921, Colonel-Commandant Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated at Benown near Glasson in Co. Westmeath. Hours later, the small village of Knockcroghery in...
Author/Editor: Regina Donlon

Early modern Duhallow, c.1534-1641

The crisis, decline and fall of Irish lordship

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In the sixteenth century the Duhallow region of north-west Co. Cork was one of the most indisputably Irish parts of Ireland. Characterized geographically by the mountainous boggy lands...
Author/Editor: David Heffernan

Nathaniel Colgan, 1851–1919

The life, times and genealogy of an enigmatic Dubliner

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Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dublin. Little was...
Author/Editor: John Colgan

Four Tipperary saints

The lives of Colum of Terryglass, Crónán of Roscrea, Mochaomhóg of Leigh and Ruadhán of Lorrha

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When St Patrick was leaving Munster via the Little Brosna river, close to Tipperary’s northern boundary, he is said to have given a blessing to the province’s...
Author/Editor: Pádraig Ó Riain

Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in medieval Ireland

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The English royal saint Edmund, king and martyr (d. 869) was venerated in Ireland from at least the twelfth century, and Athassel priory in Co. Tipperary was...
Author/Editor: Francis Young

A history of the Irish Red Cross

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Since its establishment in 1939, the Irish Red Cross Society (IRCS) has played a key part in the medical, social, religious, cultural, political and diplomatic history of twentieth-century...
Author/Editor: Shane Lehane

Nenagh, 1914–21

Years of crisis

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Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History series. This book looks at life in Nenagh during the tumultuous period of 1914 to 1921. It examines...
Author/Editor: Gerard Dooley